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IBM IBM計算機公司[該公司申請了很多專利] IBM計算機公司[該公司申請了很多專利] { International Business Machines} International Business Machines ( manufacturer, IBM) IBM: / I· B· M/ Once upon a time, the computer company most hackers loved to hate; today, the one they are most puzzled to find themselves liking. From hackerdom' s beginnings in the mid- 1960s to the early 1990s, IBM was regarded with active loathing. Common expansions of the corporate name included: Inferior But Marketable; It' s Better Manually; Insidious Black Magic; It' s Been Malfunctioning; Incontinent Bowel Movement; and a near- infinite number of even less complimentary expansions ( see also fear and loathing). What galled hackers about most IBM machines above the PC level wasn' t so much that they were underpowered and overpriced ( though that counted against them), but that the designs were incredibly archaic, crufty, and elephantine ... and you couldn' t fix them — source code was locked up tight, and programming tools were expensive, hard to find, and bletcherous to use once you had found them. We didn' t know how good we had it back then. In the 1980s IBM had its own troubles with Microsoft and lost its strategic way, receding from the hacker community' s view. Then, in the 1990s, Microsoft became more noxious and omnipresent than IBM had ever been. In the late 1990s IBM re- invented itself as a services company, began to release open- source software through its AlphaWorks group, and began shipping Linux systems and building ties to the Linux community. To the astonishment of all parties, IBM emerged as a staunch friend of the hacker community and open source development, with ironic consequences noted in the FUD entry. This lexicon includes a number of entries attributed to ‘ IBM’; these derive from some rampantly unofficial jargon lists circulated within IBM' s formerly beleaguered hacker underground.
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